28 Exciting And Fresh jQuery Navigation Plugins

Navigation is doubtlessly the most important and critical part of the website designing process. This is that part of the website where the creative skills of all the designers are tested as they have to make the navigation very easy for the users and yet at the same time uniquely creative. Navigation is extremely important for almost all the websites as it allows the designers to neatly categorize their websites into different parts where users can surf for the required information pertaining to that particular part. So it can safely said that the navigation process should be so easy that the user doesn’t have to think at all as to where he/she should go for what he/she requires and yet the interface should also be alluring enough that the user retains a great experience.

We have therefore collected for all the website developers some fresh and exciting JQuery plugins that will look excellent in all websites. These amazing plugins will definitely inspire you and take your design to the next best level!!

FlexNav is a mobile-first example of using media queries and javascript to make a decent multi-level menu with support for touch, hover reveal, and keyboard tab input accessibility. Special attention is paid to touch screens using tap targets (the key feature of FlexNav).

Toolbar allows you to quickly create tooltip style toolbars for use in web applications and websites. The toolbar is easily customisable using the twitter bootstrap icons and provides flexability around the toolbars display and number of icons.

jMenu is a jQuery plugin that enables us to create horizontal navigations with unlimited sub-menus.Besides jQuery, it also requires jQuery UI and supports all the effects of this library (like fadeIn or slideDown).

Navgoco is a simple JQuery plugin which turns a nested unordered list of links into a beautiful vertical multi-level slide navigation, with ability to preserve expanded submenus between sessions by using cookies and optionally act as an accordion menu.

HorizontalNav is a jQuery plugin that spans a horizontal navigation to fit the full width of it’s container. If you’ve ever had to create this effect on a project, you’ll know it’s pretty annoying to do. But this plugin makes it easy and adds support for IE7.

TinyNav.js is a tiny jQuery plugin (452 bytes minified and gzipped) that converts ul and ol navigations to a select dropdowns for small screen. It also automatically selects the current page and adds selected=”selected” for that item.

This jQuery plugin supplies an easy way to unobtrusively add a letter-based navigation widget to any UL or OL list. An easily stylable (via CSS) nav bar appears above the list, showing the user the letters A-through-Z.

jPaginator is a jQuery plugin for pagination. It’s fun, intuitive, it comes with a slider and you can ask for an unlimited number of pages. Use it with a unique element, for more details please have a look at the code of demo1 and the plugin’s options.

Akordeon is a stylish jQuery plugin for adding efficient accordion style menu to a web page. The idea behind Akordeon is to provide a lightweight and customizable interface for collapsible panels that can hold any kind of data in a limited space.

Side Toggle Menu lets you add a side bar menu to your page that slides in from the left or right edge of the browser window. It supports two types of unveiling- either by nudging the rest of the page and making room for itself, or overlaying the page.

scrollNav is a light jQuery plugin that grabs your page’s existing content, divides it up into logical sections and builds a customizable scrolling sidebar navigation. Scroll this page and watch the nav follow along with you.